The big problem comes when publishers seek to own the information instead of a particular expression of that information. They have the cash to make trouble.
Can you actually name a situation where that happened?? I have never heard of anyone claiming to own facts before. If so I would try and own all the information for engineering students in the world and become their greatest enemey. Note: Last statement was sarcasm.
I went through most of college without buying any textbooks. Professors used the same textbooks for a while (there haven't been any major news on basic calculus, physics and algebra, for instane). Our library had many copies of the most used textbooks, and we could loan them for long periods.
It depends. If the teacher has a book with readings in it she can bring it to my library and say that she wants to put this on reserved materials. This results in a book with a due date that is only 2 days long. Fortunately, these are books that only have a few readings. Also, my universities library is one of the largest in Boston and I don't think that they every single text book that I could get by with what you are suggesting because of these books being stolen, new (shortens due date), or they are put on hold (shortens due date).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration# Forests
Read the part about natural sequestration. I was also not saying that planting trees was a bad thing. I was just saying that there has to be more to it than just planting trees. Reduce emissions, use alternative engerty etc. etc. etc.
It is harder to lay back and read my laptop than a traditional text book. Until an electronic form comes out that is easy to lay in bed with and read for 30 minutes with shining a light in a face I will never use ebooks.
There is about three of four of those coming out from Eink. Pick your manufacturer and price. Im hoping Sony's product will not be a crapfest of DRM and allow.pdfs to be read. It plays mp3s oddly enough without DRM and will support SD cards. I really don't care if I have to convert the.pdfs as long as I can read them.
eople always ask why there should be cheap, low power ebook readers. This is why. The world needs them to teach its children without popping for several thousands of dollars per student to enrich paper mills and book publishers. And there's the small matter of losing our forests to this idiocy. Global warming is caused by an overabundance of CO2; the solution is TREES, as many as we can plant. That, and not killing the microplants living on the surface of the world's oceans, which produce half of the photsynthesis activity, but I digress.
No. The solution is not planting as many trees as we can. The solution has never been planting as many trees as we can. I remember Discover magazine did the math using the most efficient plant (I think walnut) and it pretty much equated to it doing squat diddly. Im not saying we have free rein to cut down all the forests though. It's just that your solution won't work.
Back when the Computer Museum was in Boston, there was a robot exhibit. And, up there on a platform, were most of the early famous robots. Shakey. The Hopkins Beast. The Stanford Arm. Those are real winners. Gort is a costume. This "award" is an embarassment to the field.
Let's face the facts. Robotics has always been a field that had significant influence between in both the real world and in our creative minds. Remember the word robot was borrowed from a play. Also, if you were to completely discount some of the most important robots that ironically were not even called robots or even exsisisted. You can't open a robotics book without having Braitenberg's name mentioned even though his robots were just a thought experiment like Flatland.
* Big three Allies of World War II
* Big three leaders of the Allies during World War II: Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin
* Big three conferences of World War II: Big 3 Conferences
* Big three Powers after World War II: United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union
* Big three European economies: Germany, France, United Kingdom
* Big three American automakers: Ford, General Motors, DaimlerChrysler
* Big three Japanese automakers: Toyota, Honda, Nissan
* Big three American broadcasting networks: CBS, NBC, ABC (see Big Media) -- and their flagship
newscasts, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, ABC World News Tonight
* Big three beer brewers: Anheuser-Busch, Coors and SABMiller
* Big three American air transport companies (current): American Airlines, United Air Lines, Delta Air Lines
* Big three Canadian Banks (formerly): Bank of Montreal, Royal Bank of Canada, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
* The Big Three, an athletic league composed of Ivy League (US) universities Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. A reference to Harvard, Yale and Princeton based on their academic reputation, iconic status and membership in the Big Three athletic league.
o Many U.S. states have their local list of "Big Three universities"
* Big three defensive line of the Montreal Canadiens in the 1970s: Serge Savard, Guy Lapointe, Larry Robinson
* Big three frontline of the Boston Celtics from 1980 to 1992: Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, Robert Parish
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* Big three video gaming companies: Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony
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* Big Three U.S. cities (by population): New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago
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* Big three (also principal, most popular) members of DC Comics' Justice League of America (JLA): Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman
* Big three professional wrestling promotions of the 1990s in North America: World Wrestling Federation, World Championship Wrestling, Extreme Championship Wrestling
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* Big three NBA Players: Tracy McGrady, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett (as advertised by adidas)
The american version of scrapheap challenge removes the team factor (instead having the nightmare of all geeks, the being picked by the team leader leading to the horror of being the last one picked, remember that from school?), adds meaningless radiochatter and camera movements and in general looks like a show that feels american. Ugh.
The vast majority of Junkyard Wars was much closer to the show than what you are describing. What you are describing is what happened right before the show went off the air. I think the situation was trying anything and everything to get their viewers. It also hurts your argument that they aired both series before the whole Americanized crap.
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The fact that Zonk didn't even mention the "infinite rotation" issue/feature doesn't help.
I was playing Brain Age and then I realzied something. Why didn't Zonk know about suduko. It's not like the game doesn't explain how to play it and it takes about a minute to learn.
But he had blind faith that technology would save him, and he always talked about the "fantastic new weapons" (jet engines, etc.) he was expecting from his scientists to save the war. Blind faith in technology is no substitute for a well run army.
As I said, I won't get into AI since that's way too big of an issue, but there is one more point worth thinking about, and that is human beings as robots. Where human beings are profoundly ignorant and very fearful, they are vulnerable to manipulation. That's where terrorists come from. From a certain perspective, suicide bombers are like robots that are being misguided by malevolent human manipulators. Since without highly advanced AI they will presumably be easier to manipulate than even the most ignorant person, robots with physical agency could very quickly become the tool of choice for terrorism.
I doubt that is the way anything will work. The AI will probably be the overiding factor in the robot. The simplest example I could think of is a robot that can take signals from humans. Sure the robot may be conrolled by a human but there could be overiding factors that would make the robot completely ignore that signal and do some other type of maneuvuer. For example a robot may be more concerned with avoiding a wall than taking commands from a human. Unfortunately, this type of method depends on how the robot is programmed in the first place.
No it isn't. A robot is far more than just a computer. You can't just plop a CS major and have him program a robot. A robot has to react to it's environment by the information it gets from it's sensors. The number of ways this can be accomplished has been probably as varied as the number of computer languages that are available. In fact some computer langauges have been created with the sole purpose of using them for robotics.
ut when was the last
time you saw a robot that was ANY practical use WHATSOEVER for
the home?
Last year if you want me to exclude the Rhoomba and the Scooba. Actually, I believe it was supposed to help the elderly. The iBot also is brought to my mind for helping wheelchair bound people.
They give an example of robots teaching kids. Err , scuse me , where
are the parents and teachers? Children need to interact with people
when learning , not lumps of plastic, which is why classroom based
computer learning is generally pretty useless for all but the
simplest things.
Yeah but what are toys but lumps of plastic and what do kids play with but toys. What did you say robots are good for? Toys.
A woman who refuses to pick up her dog's crap after it takes a dump on the subway *deserves* to humiliated.
If a dog craps on the carpet, you rub his nose in it. If a dog craps on the subway, and the owner doesn't pick it up, you rub *her* nose in it.
Yeah but what about the other people who were humiliated that had nothing to do with this event. Trust people are too uptight and this just shows it. To have a large group of people become obsessive over this one thing is just stupid.
Seriously what the hell just happened. Since when has april fools day been about making a fool of yourself?
Well according to wikipedia after 12:00PM in some countries a person that pulls an April Fools joke is actually considered the fool.
Where was that single hoax among the serious articles that sucked you in, until you did the double-take and realise you'd been 'had'? I expected something intelligent from/., something subtle. Instead we got 3000 comments about PONIES.
You see the joke itself was very very subtle. Slashdot make you think for 365 days in the year that the userbase is capable of sane and insightful discussion. Today just shows us that assumption is wrong.
Jokes are not funny when you have to read wikipedia to understand them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Scoble Note to moderators: This is a joke. If you feel this is a horrible joke go right ahead and mod me down.
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Can you actually name a situation where that happened?? I have never heard of anyone claiming to own facts before. If so I would try and own all the information for engineering students in the world and become their greatest enemey. Note: Last statement was sarcasm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration# Forests
Read the part about natural sequestration. I was also not saying that planting trees was a bad thing. I was just saying that there has to be more to it than just planting trees. Reduce emissions, use alternative engerty etc. etc. etc.
No. The solution is not planting as many trees as we can. The solution has never been planting as many trees as we can. I remember Discover magazine did the math using the most efficient plant (I think walnut) and it pretty much equated to it doing squat diddly. Im not saying we have free rein to cut down all the forests though. It's just that your solution won't work.
It reminds me of George and Jimmy from Seinfeld. "George likes his food spicy."
Let's face the facts. Robotics has always been a field that had significant influence between in both the real world and in our creative minds. Remember the word robot was borrowed from a play. Also, if you were to completely discount some of the most important robots that ironically were not even called robots or even exsisisted. You can't open a robotics book without having Braitenberg's name mentioned even though his robots were just a thought experiment like Flatland.
Leonard Nimoy saying ,"Who put the boop in the boopseboop?" Note: This is a song. I just don't know the corect line.
The vast majority of Junkyard Wars was much closer to the show than what you are describing. What you are describing is what happened right before the show went off the air. I think the situation was trying anything and everything to get their viewers. It also hurts your argument that they aired both series before the whole Americanized crap.
Lets look at the bat bomb:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb
How about project pigeon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
The Japanese had their fire balloons that killed one person
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_balloon
Heheheh... After reading through the instructions I realized what microcontroller it ran on. The microcontroller itself has a very large following. Im sure these people will help you program your little bitty robot. http://www.avrfreaks.net/index.php?POSTNUKESID=17f 53fb2c3f81f15a81c3e573d6d8bbc
It depends on what you mean by success. The Mars rover missions have failed more than 2/3 of the time. Those aren't really good odds.
Yeah but what about the other people who were humiliated that had nothing to do with this event. Trust people are too uptight and this just shows it. To have a large group of people become obsessive over this one thing is just stupid.
found here:http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/31/1 746234
Jokes are not funny when you have to read wikipedia to understand them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Scoble Note to moderators: This is a joke. If you feel this is a horrible joke go right ahead and mod me down.